The Brady Campaign, one of the leading gun control groups in the nation, launched their “Toddlers Kill” campaign earlier this week, citing statistics involving kids.

The problem with their stats? They’re skewed to the point of irrelevance.

While they proclaim “toddlers kill,” the vast majority of their “victims” actually look a lot more like this.

That’s right: the vast majority of those victims are in fact teenagers. Many, if not most of them involved in urban gang warfare.

Let’s look at these deceptive numbers, shall we?

The “Toddlers Kill” campaign refers to the Brady Campaign’s gun death fact sheet, which is based off of the Center for Disease Control’s National Center for Injury Prevention and Control’s statistics.

The anti-gunners claim “2,624 kids and teens die from gun violence,” but number doesn’t just include toddlers, like the “Toddler Kill” campaign misleadingly suggests. Instead it includes gun-related incidents from everyone 19 and younger.

Here’s the actual numbers of accidental firearm deaths by age group:

Under the age of 14: 50 deaths

15-24 years old: 148 deaths

Here are the real numbers for homicides involving firearms:

Under one year old: 5 deaths

Between 1 and 4 years old: 47 deaths

Between 5 and 14 years old: 173 deaths

Between 15 and 24 years old: 3,587

The real numbers for firearms suicides:

Under age 4: 0 deaths

Between 5 and 14 years old: 173 deaths

Between 15 and 24 years old: 2,270 deaths

While “toddlers kill” makes a very catchy advertising campaign, it is also very deceptive.

Then again “Crips Kill Bloods Kill Crips” isn’t quite as catchy, even as it paints a much more accurate picture of the real issue, which is gang violence.

Beth Baumann is a public relations professional in Northern Idaho. Beth is a campaign veteran who has worked on numerous state and federal elections. In 2014, she was the Communications Assistant for the American Conservative Union, where she helped plan and execute media relations strategies for CPAC 2014. She is an avid Second Amendment supporter and advocate and loves fishing in her free time. You can follow her on Twitter at @eb454.
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